Bikes and desks to help African schoolchildren

Schools in Hull have donated equipment to help students in Africa.

Desks, chairs and other educational equipment have been sent to schools in Sierra Leone.

A number of bicycles have also been shipped.

The shipping container of goods was organised by the Freetown Society which works to strengthen links between Hull and the West African country.

Hull has been twinned with the capital of Freetown since 1979.

The links were set up to commemorate Hull MP William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned to abolish the slave trade in the early 1800s.

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